Iron with light and switch



Sept. 29, 1925. 1,555,753

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INVE/Y7'0/7 Patented Sept. 29, 1925.

UNITED STATES 1,555,753 PATENT OFFICE.

ARNE B. OSTIBY, OF MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA, ASSIGNO'E OF ONE-FIFTH 'I'O GEORGE IR. DUNN, ONE-TENTE TO ENGEL S. J'OHNSON, ONE-TENTH TO EILEl-t S. JOHNSON, ONE-TENTH. TO JAMES G. REID, AND ONE-TENTH TO ELSA M. MODROW, ALL OF MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA.

1301: WITH near AND swr'rcn.

Application filed March a, 1924. Serial No. 697,355.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that ARNE B, Os'rnY, a citizen of Norway, residing at Minneapolis, in the county of Hennepin and State of Minnesota, has invented certain new and useful Improvements in Irons with Lights and Switches; and he does hereby declare the following to be a full,clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to a flat .iron or sad iron and particularly to such aniron of the well known electrical type which is heated by electricity. Such irons are commonly provided with a connecting cord with a plug at the end adapted to be received in an electrical socket. It is often desired to use the iron in the evening or after dark when a lamp is necessary. As the plug on the cord preempts-the socket, it is often not convenient to have an electric light available unless a double lamp socket is used in the fixture. Even when such a double lamp socket is used, the ironing operation is often at'some distance from the fixture so that a proper illumination is not had on the work.

It is an object of this invention, therefore, to provide an iron carrying a lamp thereon which preferably is disposed in one end of the handle of the iron. I

It is also an object of the invention to provide such an iron with a switch thereon by means of which the heating current can be turned on or olf together with a lamp as above described which lamp can be lighted whether the switch is on or off.

These and other objects and advantages of the invention will be fully set forth in the following description made in connection with the accompanying drawings in tti which like reference characters refer to the same parts throughout the different views and in which Fig. 1. is a view in side elevation of the iron, portions thereof being shown in vertical section; and r Fig. 2 is a horizontal section taken on line 2-2 of'Fig. 1 and shown on an enlarged scale.

Referring to the drawings, a flat or sad iron of the usual shape is shown havin the body portion 1. A handle bracket 2 1s sein the shell 16 of t cured thereto by suitable means such as the headed screws 3 which bracket carries at its upper end the handle proper 4. The bracket 2 1s substantially of U-shape and is formed to abut the rear end of the handle 4 and be secured thereto by screws passing through lugs 2 into the sides of said handle. The forward portion of the handle 4 is shown as passing through one side of bracket 2 at the top thereof, said bracket having a lug 2 contacting the top of the said handle.

The usual connecting cord forthe iron is shown as 5 having therein a pair of electr1cal conductors or wires 6 which terminate at and are secured, respectively, to the screws or contacts 7. A pair of s aced switch arms or contacts 8 engage an are secured, respectively, to the screws 7. Another pa1r of spaced contacts 9 are provided secured and engagedby the screws 10, said contacts 9 being longitudinally aligned with the contacts 8. The screws 7 and 10 engage in the side of a casingll secured to the body 1 of the iron in any customary and suitable manner which casing preferably is detachable from the iron and electrically connected with the heating means (not shown) therein. The contacts 8 and 9 form the stationary members of a switch and are,

adapted alternately to be connected and disconnected by spaced and movable contacts '12 which are moved by a handle knob 13 adapted to project at one side of the casing 10. Conductors 14 extend from the screws 10 to the electrical heating means in the iron body 1. A coiled wire conduit 15 is shown in part at the outer end of casing 10 which surrounds and is adapted'to protect the cord 5. The handle 4 is hollow and at its front end is provided with the shell 16 forming a threaded lamp socket, said shell 'being secured by small headed nutted bolts to a block 17 of insulating material secured in handle 4. The tip contact for the lam socket is formed by the headed and nutte bolt 18 disposed centrally of the block 17.

'Electrical conductors 19 extend from the bolt 18 and one of the bolts securing shell 16, respectively, through the handle4 and are connected, respectively, at their other ends to the screws 7. A lamp bulb 20 of standard electrical ty e is shown as inserted e lamp socket and a shade and reflector 21 is disposed above said lamp 20 and secured to the handle 4 by a headed screw passing therethrough and through the lug 2 into said .handle. As clearly shown in Fig. 1, the lamp 20 projects at the forward end of the iron.

In operation the iron will be connected by the cord 5 as usual to a source of electric current. The switch button 13 will be manipulated to supply heating current to the iron. It will be seen that as soon as the cord 5 is connected to the source of current, lamp 20 will be supplied with current and illuminated. It will also be seen that said lam when screwed into its socket will be illllIIlL- nated whether button 13 is turned to supply heating current to the iron or to shut off said current. If it is desired to extinguish the lamp 20, this can be done by turning the same slightly in its socket or, if desired, a key socket may be used.

From the above description, it is seen that applicant has-provided a simple and efficient structure of iron and one which will have a high degree of utility. The work will be successfully illuminated and at the proper point.- The shade 21 will act to efliciently reflect the light onto the work and to prevent an objectionable glare intothe eyes of the operator. The heating of the iron can be controlled without going to the fixture to which cord 5 is connected and the lamp 20 can be used as stated whether or not the iron is being heated. The device can be easily and inexpensively made and the im proved handle can be easily installed on standard irons. The device has been amply demonstrated in actual practice and found to be very successful and efficient.

It will, of course, be understood that various changes may be made in the-form, details and arrangement and proportions of the parts without departing from the scope of applicants invention which, generally stated, consists in the device capable of carrying out the objects above set forth, such in combination, a body portion, a handle secured to said body portion, a lamp carried by said handle above the forward end of sa1d body portion, a pair of conductors-for said lamp extending therefrom through said handle, heating means for said body, a cord comprising a single pair of conductors adapted to be connected to a source of current and permanently connected to said first mentioned conductors, and a switch at the rear side of said body adapted to be moved to connect and disconnect said last mentioned conductors to and from said heating means, respectively, whereby said iron may be operated from a single lamp socket and said lamp on the iron may be illuminated whether the heating means is connected or disconnected. Y

2. An electrically heated fiatiron having in combination, a body portion, a handle portion secured thereto, a lamp carried by said handle portion and disposed above the front end of said body portion, a single cord comprising a single pair of conductors extending from. said iron and permanently connected to a pair of contacts at the rear of said iron, a pair of conductors connected, respectively, to said contacts and to said lamp, a heating means for said body por- ARNE B. OSTBY. 

